Office ok thk Dikectok. 

 Ratox Rouge, La., January 24, 1906. 

 Hon. CIkis. Schuin-. Coiiniiissioner of AgricuUurc and Immigra- 

 tion. Baldii li>iug< . La.: 



Sir— I lu'ivwith prtwiil to vdu llic report of ^Ir. L. R. 

 Cary. Zooloo'ist Gulf Riolosiic Slatioii. ui)on the eonditions for 

 oyster culture in the waters of Vermilion and Iberia Parishes, 

 Louisiana, and ask thai yon imhlish it as Bulletin No. 4 of the 

 Gulf Bioloo-i,. Station. 



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R. II. (irn.BEAr, Director. 



